GUWAHATI: Within a span of three months, 122 new born babies died at Jorhat Medical College Hospital (JMCH) in Upper Assam including 27 in past one week raising questions about the quality of treatment in the government medical college.
According to hospital authorities, starting from October 1 to October 20, 45 infants died in the hospital.
However, hospital authorities don’t term the death rate as something abnormal and said that the doctors and nurses per patient is adequate and the mortality rate is high due to admission of too many pregnant women in the hospital in the recent period.
It may be mentioned here that in 2018 during the month of November, 15 new born babies died in the same hospital which created lots of hue and cry in the state.
Congress MLA from Moriani said that he has information that more than 35 infants died in the past one week and that the hospital authorities are hiding the actual figures.
Even the senior hospital authorities have not given any reason for such high death rate of infants.